Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"It would be thought a hard government
that should tax its people one tenth part."

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all."

~ Davy Crockett  

"I know no class of my fellowmen,
however just, enlightened, and humane,
which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely
with the liberties of any other class."

~ Frederick Douglass  

"From each according to his abilities,
to each according to his needs."

~ Karl Marx  

"There is only one success:
to be able to spend your life in your own way,
and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it."

~ Christopher Darlington Morley  

"Here is my principle:
Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay.
That is the only American principle."

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt  

"A liberal's like to be lax
When recommending a tax.
With a glut in his heart
And his brain low a quart,
He will give you the shirts off our backs."

~ F. R. Duplantier  

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation
of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice."

~ Thomas Sowell  

"... every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive."

~ Auberon Herbert  

"I don't know if I can live on my income or not -- the government won't let me try it."

~ Bob Thaves  

~ Calvin Coolidge  

"The avoidance of taxes
is the only intellectual pursuit
that carries any reward."

~ John Maynard Keynes  

"Congress will ever exercise their powers
to levy as much money as the people can pay.
They will not be restrained from direct taxes
by the consideration that necessity does not require them."

~ Melancton Smith  

"Our Constitution is
in actual operation;
everything appears to promise
that it will last;
but in this world
nothing is certain
but death and taxes."

~ Benjamin Franklin